Santorum: Obama needs to embrace Iran, Syria prodemocracy movements

2/23/12 8:27 AM EST

Santorum, speaking with Greta van Susteren on Fox News last night, said President Obama needs to be willing to work with prodemocracy movements in Syria and Iran in order to make progress there.

"We need to do what President Obama was very willing to do in Egypt and Libya but seems reticent to do in Syria and Iran, those two connected states, which is to support the prodemocracy movement in those countries," Santorum said. "The president was willing to jump into bed with the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya and in Egypt but seemed again has actually sided originally with Syria in this struggle by recognizing them as a government for the first time in many, many years, put an embassy in place in Syria, and of course during the elections in 2009 when the Green Revolution was sparked in Iran, he sided with Ahmadinejad and the mullahs."

"If you’re an enemy of the United States, you’re going to get very nice treatment from Obama but if you’re a friend, you’re going to get thrown under the bus," he continued.

Still, he said, with regards to the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama should have better considered whether the Muslim Brotherhood was the right group to embrace.

"He should have realized, he should have known what was coming in after Mubarak, and he still acted to throw Mubarak under the bus and take that risk and now we see that risk come to fruition," Santorum said.